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vix prominente, bracteae appresso, hand exserto. Staminodia lata brevia basi 

 vix angustata. Filamentum breve, latius quam longum. Anthera crassa et 

 saepe dorso minute puberula, calcaribus brevibus pauium curvatis. Stylodia 

 longa. Corolla alba apice petalorum vix pallide roseo. 



The bulb attains considerable dimensions and is often long conical 

 (60 X 30—100 X 50 or larger). The rhizomes arise in great number about 

 the whole circumference, they soon bend upwards to form new tubers and 

 sympodia. The longest was 100 X 20, internodes 15 to 35 mm. Almost 

 exclusively on the lowerside numerous thick side-branches, of which the 

 largest soon again form tertiary branches. All branches are short and thick, 

 clavate and obconical or barrei-shaped with rounded end-buds, which, by 

 a length of 50, often attain a diameter of 30 mm. The roots are here again 

 fleshy (especially in the young primary-tuber), and cord-shaped, very 

 numerous around the tuber, and on short and mediocre stalks (100 — 250 mm.); 

 they bear a great number of very large and also small pendulous tubers, 

 the largest oblong-fusiform and more than 130 mm. sometimes 150X 25, 

 the small ones only 25 mm. long. Internally the colour of the central cylinder 

 is light-brimestone-yellow, the bark white.. 



The colour of the still fresh rhizomes and the buds is externally very 

 light-yellow (246) older ones are shining-lightbrown as if polished. The 

 colour of the younger parts is bright-yellow on the section, the central- 

 cylinder darker (216 to 231); the older parts are dirty-light-brown with a 

 tinge of yellow (honey-brown 182 very diluted) on the section. 



The leaf-bearing stem is provided at the base with 2 mucronate scales 

 which are broadly rounded at the top and scariosemargined, it produces 

 7—8 leaves. These are short-petioled, the outer sessile, elliptical, ending in 

 a rather hard mucro; the other all oblong-lanceolate with a Prop, of 2, 7 

 in a younger plant, of rather more than 3 in an older one. The latter had 7 

 leaves of which the petioles were successively. 60—210, the outer one 

 measured 440 X 190 (P = 2.3), the inner one was 750 X 190. (P = 3). 

 Commonly P = 3.5 — 5. The leaves are thus longer and narrower than in 

 C. aeruginosa .and xanthorhiza. The leaves are dark-green and the entire 

 mid-rib from the top to the very base is red or red-brown with a broad 

 feather shaped extension of a dark-purple colour spreading on both sides over 

 the parenchyma, broad 8—15 mm., or in very strong plants to 25 mm., 

 visible on the underside near the midrib. In old feeble plants the spot 

 becomes lighter and narrower but always remains darker and broader than 

 in C. xanthoriza. 



The scape is from 100 — 250 mm. long, clothed wih 3 or 4 sheaths or 

 scales, which enclose the peduncle, and are rather broadly rounded at the 

 top. The uppermost of these, the peduncular leaf is 90—220 mm. long, 

 spathulate, quite open, and is inserted 90—200 mm. under the base of the 



